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    Joshua Brooks
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    My guess is that for some of us, the “I’m busy” response is simply a badge we wear to portray an image of importance to each other. Maybe not consciously—some of us play the “I’m busy” card out of hab...

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    Gary Smalley and John Trent
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    In the Bible, by blessing humankind, God is telling us how highly he values us. When we bless one another, we remind one another how important and significant our lives are to each other. And when we ...

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    Warren W. Wiersbe
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    If worship does nothing else for us, it helps us discover the things that are important. Real worship will transform your life.

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    Dr. Caroline Leaf
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    Proverbs 4:7, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 , Isaiah 40:28-31, Luke 10:38-42, James 1:5-8 , Psalm 1:1-3
    Everything in our society seems to convey the message of “now!” It’s almost as if we’ve entered an era where we have sacrificed the processing of knowledge for the gathering of data.

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    Steven Pressfield
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    The Principle of Priority states (a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and (b) you must do what’s important first.

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. (New York: Harper & Row, 1963)

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    Jean Danielou
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    Philippians 1:9-10, Proverbs 18:2, 1 Corinthians 13:12, Romans 12:3, Isaiah 66:2
    Truth consists in the mind giving to things the importance they have in reality.

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    Kevin G. Ford
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    Genesis 11:1-9 , Judges 17:6 , Exodus 32:1-6, Philippians 2:3-4 , Luke 12:16-21, Psalm 133:1
    The problem is not recognizing the importance of the individual. The problem is the glorification of the individual. When the individual self is glorified over the greater good of the community, right...

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    Skye Jethani
    In our zeal to honor the importance of God’s Word and extol its usefulness, we may unintentionally do the opposite. We may reduce the Bible from God’s revelation of himself to merely a revelation of d...

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    Source Unknown
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    Never underestimate the importance of being properly caffeinated.

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    Dorothy L. Sayers
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    It is precisely because of the eternity outside time that everything in time becomes valuable and important and meaningful. Therefore, Christianity ... makes it of urgent importance that everything we...

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

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    Isak Dinesen
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    I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of ...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    In normal life one is not at all aware that we always receive infinitely more than we give, and that gratitude is what enriches life. One easily overestimates the importance of one’s own acts and deed...

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    Fleming Rutledge
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    The passion stories take up one-fourth to one-third of the total length of the four Gospels, and biblical interpreters generally agree that the material was shaped by the church’s oral traditions prio...

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    Satan always hates Christian fellowship; it is his policy to keep Christians apart. Anything which can divide saints from one another he delights in. He attaches far more importance to godly intercour...

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    Carl Jung
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    One cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be of little importance in the evening, and what in the morning was true wi...

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    John Adams
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    Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

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    1927 U.S. Journalist
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    A change has come over our democracy. It is called consumptionism. The American citizen’s first importance to his country is now no longer that of citizen but that of consumer.

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    Abraham J. Heschel
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    The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted. Indifference to the divine wonder of living is the root of sin.

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    S. Scott Bartchy
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    It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of table fellowship for the cultures of the Mediterranean basin in the first century of our era. . . . Being welcomed at a table for the purpose of...

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Matthew 21:21, Romans 10:17, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Proverbs 3:5-6, Mark 9:24
    The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are to subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

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    Jon Bloom
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    Distraction, at least the dangerous kind I’m referring to, is shifting our attention from something of greater importance to something of lesser importance. Our fundamental and most dangerous problem ...

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    Richard Halverson
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    Jesus Christ said more about money than about any other single thing because, when it comes to a man’s real nature, money is of first importance. Money is an exact index to a man’s true character. All...

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    Candice Bergen
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    Psalm 90:17, 1 Peter 3:3-4, James 1:10-11, Ecclesiastes 3:11, 2 Corinthians 4:18, Isaiah 40:7-8, 1 Samuel 16:7
    Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

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    Ursula K. Le Guin
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    Romans 12:1-2, Matthew 5:14-16, Micah 6:8, Isaiah 1:17, James 4:17
    If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

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    Jack Hyles
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    What we do today is more important than what we plan to do in the future.

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    Myles Munroe
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    The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.
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